TU Delft Library’s Collection Wall levels up with sound-light-haptic sculptures
On 15 October, the TU Delft Library unveiled two new additions to its Collection Wall. This in-house project aims to explore what the future holds for the space’s tradition book wall and how it can embrace the visualisation, tangibility, and cross-knowledge sharing experience expected of a university library in the 21st century.
A collaborative effort
Students and staff from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering's BSc elective course, Form & Senses, played a central role in one of the new additions. In collaboration with the TU Delft Library team, they created multisensory reinterpretations of artworks from the TU Delft Academic Heritage collection.
The students were posed with the challenge of responding creatively to one of four pre-selected artworks from the TU Delft library collection. Using the artwork as inspiration, they delved into the possibilities of engaging the visual, tactile, and auditory senses to reinterpret these original pieces. A jury then selected five haptic sound sculptures for display in the "student work" section of the Collection Wall.
Visitors can experience the works on the upper floor of the Collection Wall until January 2025.
About Form & Senses
When it comes to design, there’s definitely more than meets the eye. The Form & Senses elective course explores how senses other than sight, like hearing and touch, play a role in designing products. The course helps students to discover how designing sounds, haptics and lights can influence object form and can create a multi sensory experience.
The course coordinators for this course are: Elif Özcan Vieira, Stephanie Gieles, Romée Postma. The coaches for this course are: Joost Alferink, Gianni Orsini, Charl Smit, Stephanie Gieles, Natassia Jacobs, and Arno van Leeuwen.
The coaches who assisted with the interactive prototyping for this course are: Freerk Wilbers, Martin Havranek, and Jerry de Vos.
More about the Collection Wall
In addition to the new Forms & Senses' installation, the library also unveiled a third prototype for the Collection Wall on 15 October.
Through the Collection Wall prototype #3, the library will test out a new concept for faculty book recommendation and a holographic AI librarian experience that is designed to bring recent additions to the CW's book collection to life and look into the future careers of students based off book data.
So be sure to check this area out the next time you visit the library... and while you are there, definitely see how many IDE staff book recommendations you can spot!
*Photos: Robèrt Kroonen